I've talked over the last year or so about providing an EE 10 variant
of standard WildFly once we move standard WildFly on to EE 11.
That day is approaching rapidly so I need to get moving on this. So:
Issue:
https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly-proposals/issues/818
Analysis:
https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly-proposals/pull/819
I did quite a bit of work on this in January and am taking it back up.
We're closing in rapidly on WildFly Preview being EE 11 compatible and
it seems highly likely that can be achieved by the planned April 23 WF
40 release.
Once WFP is compatible it's a matter of maybe a day's work to shift
standard WildFly to providing EE 11 instead of EE 10. So that could be
done for WF 40 as well. But, unlike WFP, standard WF hasn't been
providing EE 11 APIs for a number of releases, so if we shift std WF
to EE 11 APIs we'd want to do that for 40 Beta, which is scheduled for
release next week.
When we move std WF to EE 11, we also want to provide this EE 10
feature pack, and continue to provide it for a couple quarters, to
give our users a chance to adapt to EE 11 while still getting bug
fixes and other new features. It would be good to provide this with 40
Beta as well.
So, there's a lot going on.
On tomorrow's WildFly Community Call (9 AM EDT at
https://meet.google.com/gwx-xggw-taj) we'll be talking about all this.
Please join us!
Best regards,
Brian Stansberry
WildFly project lead